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Logic 118

so we now [m?st] with a Rational Threeness which consists in A and B being really merely paired by virtue of a third object C. I tell my dog to go upstairs and fetch me my book which he does.
Here is a fact about three things, myself, the dog, and the book, which is no mere sum of facts relating to pairs nor even a pairing of such pairs.
I speak to the dog.
I mention the book.
I do all those thing together.
The dog fetches the book.
He does it in consequence of what I did.
That is not the whole story.
I not only simultaneously spoke to the dog and mentioned the book but I mentioned the book to the dog; that is I caused him to think od the book and to bring it.
My relation to the book was that I uttered certain sounds which were understood by the dog to have reference to the book.
What I dis to the dog beyond exciting his auditory nerve was merely